Quotes About Belief

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

Because things are not agreeable, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.

No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.

Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope.

Quant au mode de prier, peu importe le nom, pourvu qu'il soit sincère. Tournez votre livre à l'envers et soyez à l'infini As for how you pray, the words do not matter if they are sincere. Turn your prayer book upside down and face the infinite.

The soul does not give up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

Confiar es a veces abandonar.

Rien n'est tel que le dogme pour enfanter le rêve. Et rien n'est tel que le rêve pour engendrer l'avenir. Utopie aujourd'hui, chair et os demain.

What have we to fear, we who believe?